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• Changing the Commercial and Drop-off recycling programs from source-separated to commingled containers; • Adding up to fifty commercial recycling sites, as capabilities allow, and addition of the collection of all paper except corrugated cardboard, to currently collected commercial sites interested in this service; • Preparation of language adding cathode ray tubes to those items banned from disposal at the Orange County landfill and expansion of the Electronics Recycling program to manage additional materials resulting from this disposal ban; and • Development and implementation of an effective education and outreach effort to publicize the changes and enhancements to the various recycling program expansions described herein and to execute this plan consistent with program implementation. Staff projects that the above improvements may increase recycling 1,700 tons overall while reducing incoming revenue by $58,000 based on switching from sale of source separated bottle and cans to commingled. In addition to the above costs and benefits, the program gains a projected 25% in collection efficiency to enable these transitions, reduction of 350 trips per year for hauling cans and bottles out to market and gains in experience for the County in market- based management of recyclable materials at private Materials Recovery Facilities. FINANCIAL. IMPACT: New first year program costs are estimated at $363,800 in the Solid Waste Enterprise Fund budget and are broken down as follows: non-recurring capital costs totaling $215,800 include a walking floor trailer to haul cans and bottles, a rubber fire loader to load them into the trailer, dumpsters and roll-off containers for collection of new plastics and related signs, electrical work and pad reconfiguration. non-recurring intensive first gear education costs to promote new programs of $41,400 including mailing, advertisements and on-site instruction about recycling new plastics. Future education costs will become part of standard program education. recurring annual costs at $106,600 including leasing a road tractor, equipment maintenance, fuel, contracted cardboard collection, and CRT collection. There are projected annual labor efficiency savings of $80,000 to be reinvested in expanded -collections. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board endorse, pending adoption of the FY 2008/09 budget, the service improvement approach for: • the transition from the current source-separated program to commingled collection, shipment and marketing of recyclables; • adding corrugated cardboard to curbside recycling; • adding new, source-separated plastics at drop-off sites; • adding more commercial recycling stops; • adding a ban on Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) at the landfill; and • implementing public education and outreach for all these changes.